[Cronos]

You outsource to produce for this market and pay people less than what a retail worker earns to do a skilled job. That destroys the worth of an education in this country

Outsourcing happens because Joe Public wants a cheaper product. To get that cheaper product costs HAVE to be cut somewhere. You can't cut that from advertising or other marketing because then your company would be dead. You can't have a company and make "Made in USA" as your USP because it won't work -- folks have tried it and Joe Public doesn't buy in enough quantity to justify this.

Do YOU make a conscience effort to buy American? Even when it may be more expensive. If you do, then I salute you, we need more folks like you. If you don't, then the problem starts with you.

Don't kick the companies for giving folks what they want, if they didn't they would be out of business.

[dfwgator]

Not only that, but many more people are now participants in the stock market. It has become "amateur hour", where if people don't get those 40% annual returns that they got during the late 90s they'll pull of the mutual funds quicker than you can say "Jack Robinson."

[Cronos]

make that do you make a conscientious effort!!!!